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by dvt 4y ago
Answering stupid questions has already been thoroughly solved, and you don't need an AI trained on 500 GTX4090s to index a stupid question database. The problem with customer service is that the questions that aren't stupid are
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by dvt 4y ago
Crypto was pushed by crypto bros and their VC funders, and now AI is being pushed by AI bros and their VC funders (probably the same group). I think there's a lot more overlap than you're giving it credit for.
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by dvt 4y ago
Totally agree with this. Thinking of doing a deep dive to see if there's any actual real uses cases of these toys, but I honestly don't really think so. Art generation is probably the most interesting application, but just having
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by dvt 4y ago
> They are not absurd, you pointing out a child doesn’t know the answer provides nothing of substance to this discussion. It does, because neither the child nor ChatGPT are equipped to answer that question. Knowing about how AI models ar
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by dvt 4y ago
Genuine question: what's wrong with that? I'm no anarchist, but this kind of ad-hoc censorship doesn't sit right with me. Some people think eating pork is morally impermissible; others think killing any living thing is morall
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by dvt 4y ago
> if you ask it how to deal with a grease fire This is absurd. If I ask a child how to deal with a grease fire, they wouldn't know the right answer either. Even looking stuff up on Wikipedia is wrong half the time. Toys like ChatGPT
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by dvt 4y ago
> producing a safe and useful tool First, how can ChatGPT possibly be unsafe ? Secondly, how is ChatGPT (by itself) ever going to be useful ? I know it's just a parenthetical, but both of these are very strange cited intents.
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by dvt 4y ago
> A "promise" is not merely a pattern being recognized, it's word that stands in for a fundamental concept of the reality of the world around us. It's probably even stronger than that: e.g. a promise is still a promis
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by dvt 4y ago
By being trained on petabytes and petabytes of human-generated pieces that constantly struggle with ethical probing of all kinds of things. I would posit: how could it not emerge?
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by dvt 4y ago
Apple Podcasts is atrocious from a usability standpoint and unless you know exactly what you're looking for, discoverability is extremely opaque. No "trending," no "new podcasts," no "shorts." Compare the
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by dvt 4y ago
I do think that podcasting is ripe for disruption and a great candidate for a "super app" that can end up being people's go-to to listen to podcasts and be exposed to new ones. Spotify did literally nothing to actually supp
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by dvt 4y ago
I can't think of any "product" that would use models like ChatGPT, maybe search? Except that ChatGPT lies to your face, so it's not even a reliable knowledge base. Maybe a "spitballing" type of app where you
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by dvt 4y ago
> Server-rendering of component updates is a post-SPA innovation (2018?), so it still seems worth explaining for most web developers. Absolutely not true. I was doing this in 2009 and so were many other people (albeit through janky XMLHt
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by dvt 4y ago
> while betting roughly $35,000 that they would beat the Los Angeles Rams and go on to win the Super Bowl. They lost. These are definitely not investors , and they aren't even traders . They're /r/wallstreetbets gam
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by dvt 4y ago
> As for the Churchill quote, the reason that democracy has those qualities is because it inherently involves compromise. But it's the same with free speech: you said it yourself, there's a lot of noise, that's the compr
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by dvt 4y ago
The problem with alternatives to the "free marketplace of ideas" is that they are all (by definition) authoritative. And who's the best "authority" here? The government? Me? You? Who decides what ideas get to be cen
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by dvt 4y ago
> This is a bit like saying "the darkness is bad, so the solution is light, and if the light ever becomes blinding, the solution is more light" Completely untenable analogy. Why people say is that the solution is more speech is
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by dvt 4y ago
> It has never been as good as the last 10 years to enter the programming workforce. The last 10 years of ballooning salaries are a mirage perpetuated by the FED's irresponsible quantitative easing. Who cares if you're making $
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by dvt 4y ago
There's plenty of evidence[1]; but more importantly, when putting stagnating salaries in the context of housing prices, CPI, and inflation, it becomes even more jarring. Today, as an engineer making 125-175k in LA, for example, you wil
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by dvt 4y ago
I mean, apart from the highfalutin class warfare nonsense and generally bad advice, this is a pretty decent post. I completely agree that over the past 30-40 years, companies have been pushing down engineering salaries. It's not really
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by dvt 4y ago
Extremely rudimentary :) back then, SURF and SIFT were just starting to get big (they are both obsolete now in favor of more robust machine learning techniques) and I wasn't even doing that .
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by dvt 4y ago
The website is long-gone, but I built something similar-ish ~10 years ago[1] using simple histogram analysis. I was surprised at how far you got with just comparing buckets with certain tolerances. Was a super fun project, but got very litt
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by dvt 4y ago
> I've read pretty frequently that when you start conceptualizing your marriage in terms of power structures, you may as well draw up the divorce papers, because that endeavor is no longer productive. This is an interesting conversa
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by dvt 4y ago
> maybe the viability of your business relies on an imbalance of power vs. your employees This is a weird take, as it absolutely does. Kind of how the viability of a military also relies on an imbalance of power between generals and pr
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by dvt 4y ago
This is partisan nonsense for a few reasons, but mainly because... > He did it to keep Roberts's vote secure He had no idea how Roberts would eventually vote. Robert's been very much a wild-card, so this would be quite the reck
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by dvt 4y ago
I hope I wasn't too harsh, and thanks for contextualizing your post. > The TL;DR of my original post is "don't optimise for income over quality of life". On this, we can 100% agree!
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by dvt 4y ago
I don't really consider myself left-brained, but I've always had a hard time remembering names. Partially because I'm not great at empathizing with folks I just meet, and partially because I genuinely don't care that muc
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by dvt 4y ago
> They obviously did that because the API is not benefiting them at all from a revenue perspective. If it were, they wouldn't have gotten rid of it. Everyone hates on Dorsey because he essentially turned Twitter into a walled garden
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by dvt 4y ago
I might be a bit harsh, but this is a typical western le bon sauvage misunderstanding about what goes on in the wilderness. I also grew up in the mountains (of Eastern Europe), and I equally despise the eye-rolling fakery and the hustle a
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by dvt 4y ago
> but not publishable-level, sorry No one's saying it is, this is arXiv, after all (not a journal). Still a fun little interesting paper, though.

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